To engrave
חָרַתStrong’s H2801charat (cha-rat)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Charat is the Hebrew word usually translated “engraved”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to engrave, graven
How it's translated
- engraved 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חָרַת charat · to engrave
(Qal) to engrave, graven
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “engrave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ENGRA'VE, verb transitive
preterit tense engraved; participle passive engraved or engraven.
- To cut, as metals, stones or other hard substances, with a chisel or graver; to cut figures, letters or devices, on stone or metal; to mark by incision.“Thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel” Exodus 28:11
- To picture or represent by incisions.
- To imprint; to impress deeply; to infix.
- To bury; to deposit in the grave; to inter; to inhume. [Not now used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.